i think that they have progressively gained better technology over time, and they have progressively gained that through a number of methods over a number of years and decades. to the degree that they will be more successful than they were last time in such a short period of time and how that -- what they've done to correct it, i can't tell you how they assess that. we'll just have to -- should they choose to go ahead with it, we'll just have to see how it goes. >> -- moving into the region to monitor this? >> well, i won't go into the specifics of how we or our allies position ourselves to insure that we understand what's happening, but we do watch this very carefully, watch it very closely. of course, in my role as the pa-com commander, my number one priority is to insure that we have a properly reassured our allies and they have properly defended our own home lambed, and we will -- homeland, and we will position our assets necessary to do that. >> [inaudible] >> um, very much related to that, on a recent trip to the region by secretary panetta, he announced the deployment of a rad